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I am a Junior EECS major at UC Berkeley. I'm very passionate about machine learning, specifically deep neural networks. I'm interested in both the research and application of neural networks in a vareity of fields. I co-founded Machine Learning @ Berkeley and have lead the development of the Data Science for Kaggle Decal. Check out my projects as well as my resume and github for more information.


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Alignment of Meshes for the Microsoft HoloLens
During my semester abroad at ETH, I had a chance to work on a research project in 3D Vision under the Computer Vision and Geometry Group with two other students in developing a mesh registration pipeline with Guaranteed Outlier Removal (GORE) and other refinement techniquess.
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With devices such as the Microsoft HoloLens now able to scan and record 3D scenes as meshes, a novel way of registering scenes taken from different coordinate systems and at different times is required.
We base our work off of the Guaranteed Outlier Removal Method presented by Bustos and Chin and expand it beyond point clouds to analyze 3D meshes. However, we could not conclude that GORE can perform consistently and effectively on real-world datasets generated by the HoloLens.
In particular, we identified that GORE has the most difficulty when the points from two datasets do not have significant overlap, notably any values below the 80% threshold. This places severe limitations on the applications of GORE, especially on real-life alignment problems.
In a team of 3, this semester-long research project supervised under Dr. Martin Oswald resulted in a final paper, presentation, and poster session with the Computer Vision and Geometry Group at ETH.


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A person who has a Dr Eng. degree but cannot make use of it at all. I want to eat food from all over the world and live on a super public bath in the future. I have been podcasting called “Zatudan 72%”. I Graduated from Doctoral Program in Department of Computer Science and Communications Engineering, Waseda University, and I had been funded by JSPS Research Fellowship (DC2 and PD). My research interests include hardware Security, side-channel attack, quantum annealing, and Ising model transformation.
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Revel the royal vibes of Rajasthan and see the abodes of yesteryear kings on this holiday. Visit Saheliyon-Ki-Bari heritage garden in Udaipur and savour the Rajasthani folk art at the Museum of Folk Arts. Take a tour of the City Palace and see a mesmerizing sunset from the Monsoon Palace. Admire the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, along with Jaswant Thada.  Do not miss the sunset by Gadisagar Lake.
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Fredrik Sjöberg - The Fly Trap
Fredrik Sjöberg 2006. The Fly Trap. New York: Pantheon Books. 278 pp. Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal.
At first this seems merely a harmless ramble on the subjects of collecting, hoverflies, life on a small Swedish island and René Malaise (inventor of the Malaise trap for catching insects, famous only among entomologists). (René Malaise, 1892–1978, was a previous inhabitant of the island of Runmarö, where the author Sjöberg now lives.) A modest amount of autobiographical content is also dispersed through the narrative. The “collecting” content and commentary is inconsequential due to the arbitrary and narrow interest of the author who declares early on that he is only interested in the hoverfly family and only in those species that can be found on his own island. It would, however, have been a big mistake to abandon reading this book (as I nearly did).
Apparently this little book is has the status of a minor cult book in the author’s native Sweden. I was not at first similarly impressed, but it grew and grew. Partly because Sjöberg’s knowledge of hoverflies and other insects is much greater than he initially makes out, but also because of the depth of his historical research into the life of René Malaise who was an adventurous traveller. He spent nearly the entire 1920s decade in Kamchatka and Japan in very difficult conditions then followed up with a trip to remote parts of Burma (although with a new wife). Another adventure was planned to Ceylon, India and the Himalaya but abandoned due to the Second World War. As Sjöberg points out, such adventurers have long since been replaced by filmmakers, although Malaise and his like had an equivalent role and great public recognition in their day.
On another level, the author gradually leads the reader to believe that this is just a book about slowing down, about gaining pleasure from making, without haste, observations of the natural world. Whatever. Hardly a novel or controversial view to advocate.
Then, when I was almost ready for a second time to abandon the book, yet again an unexpected reward for persistence: in Chapter 14 it is revealed that René Malaise rejected the theory of plate tectonics, which was only recently becoming widely accepted. Although he also held some loopy ideas about Atlantis and other things, Malaise wasn’t totally wrong about everything (who is?). Some quotes:
Malaise in Sjöberg’s words (p. 205):
“Wegener’s theory was humbug. The earth’s crust, he insisted, was far too thick. No force on earth could be strong enough to propel such a sideways migration. Never. He found particularly ridiculous the piece of the theory that said the Indian subcontinent had come whizzing along from the south with such force that the collision with the rest of Asia had pushed up the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau. Not a chance.”
Malaise in his own words (p. 213):
“Scientists of to-day, be it geologists, geophysicists, or oceanographers, are so overspecialized that they master only a limited sector of their own branch. Outside this sector they hardly dare to express an opinion. The fundamental theories on which, for instance, geology is based have mostly been in use for generations and have in their mind ceased to be theories and have attained almost the standing of axioms.”
Sjöberg again (p. 216):
“When everything is said and done, the days of really revolutionary breakthroughs are perhaps not over. Maybe, sooner or later, someone will sweep Wegener right out of the door.”
Indeed.
Much more to come on that, elsewhere. For the moment, and in the spirit of even-handedness, one advocate of the most plausible alternative to plate tectonics is here and the web abounds with many shrill responses from plate tectonics advocates.


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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Seen on 27 November 1997 with Linda, Sandy and Lynne, and Miriam and Justin, for $8.50 at Douglaston Movieworld.
[Longer review than usual.]
What's that old adage again? Ah yes! "The movie is never as good as the book." Truer words were never recalled as fiercely as they are for *Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil*. Director Clint Eastwood was lucky enough to get ahold of a novel that was on bestsellers lists for years. It is unfortunate that the deep impression left upon me by the book leaves me disappointed with this movie, which is longer than two and a half hours.
John Berendt's novel is written much like a Balzac novel--rich in history, very much roman a clef, and it is not until all the players and their stories are firmly in place that the "main action" or crisis for the characters begins.
In this case, it is the shooting of young Billy Hanson (Jude Law) by nouveau riche Savannah aristocrat Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey). On the eve of this event arrives *Town and Country* writer John Kelso (John Cusack), to cover Jim's annual Christmas party, one of the most highly sought-out invitations in Savannah society.
John becomes enmeshed in a variety of social intrigues and the quirky Southern characters that propel them. There's Luther Driggers (Geoffrey Lewis), who ties horseflies to his clothes and threatens to poison the water supply; carriage-driving Joe Odom (Paul Hipp), who siphons electricity to light his illegal tours and parties; Minerva (Irma P. Hall), the local voodoo lady; and who will ever forget The Lady Chablis (played by herself)--the transvestite transsexual?
There are also other ancillary quirkies to keep us entertained: the party guest who blithely waves a pint-sized pistol around; the man who "walks" an empty leash around the town square; the bulldog mascot that is treated like royalty.
All of this conspires to give an essence of living in Savannah; Berendt's book is based on true characters. However, what made the book interesting is absent in many ways in the movie. A book allows the luxury of depth and imagination heightens that depth. Movies limit this.
The film spends a lot of time in the courtroom when Jim Williams is arrested for killing hustler Billy Hanson. It is known that he did kill him, but the depth of *why* is not really explored from anyone but Jim William's point of view. Instead of spending time court telling the story, flashbacks would have been more elaborative--a movie technique ignored for the most part. A Rashomon style storytelling would have added to the extent of Billy's despicable nature.
Also rather uninteresting was the filming. Considering how colorful the characters and the town are, why is there a dull, flat look throughout the movie? At one point, the courtroom scenes almost look like they relied on natural lighting.
The Lady Chablis is the standout performance here. Flambuoyant and buoyant, without her the movie would simply limp its way home. Also interesting was Jack Thompson (I) as defense attorney Sonny Seiler, the epitome of Southern gentility and chicanery. Alison Eastwood (Clint's daughter) plays Mandy Nichols, who seems thrown in to provide a love interest for John Cusack. She plays one useful purpose in the story, but is otherwise wasted. She will probably make a good leading lady in her own right one day, however.
The saddest part of this adaptation is that it is the the possibly the first book about the South to garner this much attention since *Gone with the Wind*, and it gets a typical Hollywood treatment that proves the "old adage" once again.
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Gurmeet Ram Rahim's aides threaten mass conversion to Islam, say Dera chief was jailed since he is Hindu
Dera Sacha Sauda spokesperson caught encouraging Dera followers to convert to Islam. Hindu Right Wing organisations slam Dera chief for misusing religion to hide wrongdoings.
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Railways To Remove All Windowpanes From Trains To Boost Safety
“Every window is now an emergency exit!” exclaims Rail Minister
“We have A/B tested this move. Bachchan Ji thinks it’s a good idea.”
“It’ll also dramatically reduce the time spent in logistic as goods and passengers can now be loaded through both doors and windows.”
Rail passenger John Smith said that he isn’t sure if the move is reassuring or scarily worrying.

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G.B. Road To Be Renamed G.S.T. Road
“Aisi chudai kabhi na kiya aur na hi dekha”, said popular vendor Miss Bubbly (name changed to protect identity).
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) reform hangs as a
swollen penis inside the pantsdouble-edged sword over the heads of the entrepreneurs of Delhi’s infamous red light district – G.B. Road. With the services being offered in the area finally coming under the special services bracket of the tax, the life and work of the artists in the area has finally been legalized. However, the services are taxed at a giggling 69% which has left the employees complaining.“I have to say, it hurts but thoda toh mazaa aa gaya”, said a proprietor.
“Main toh abhi condom bhi nahi khareed pata hai so main safed panni aur rubberband chadha ke hi kaam chala raha hai”, said another.
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Shiv Sena followers kill 100 militants out of exasperation
After the frustratingly deadly stampede at Mumbai’s Elphinstone railway station yesterday, the Rail Ministry held a high-level meeting to avert future crises. The committee decided to reconstruct all foot overbridges in the City of (Ghastly) Dreams on high priority.
To showcase their pragmatism, the Railways began to tear down all the bridges at once; this while tenders are still being invited for the construction of the replacement bridges. “Kaal kare so aaj kar, aaj kare so ab”, said a senior official.
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Saudi King Regrets Letting Women Drive
Male drivers lose jobs to better women drivers
Women in the country gained the right to drive early last month in a move celebrated by feminist activist groups all over the world. However, an unsettling account has come up in the wake of protests by male drivers who are losing their jobs to women as the fairer sex has proved to be a more reliable and safer operator behind the wheel.
Who would have thought this would happen? If you ask Salim Smith, personal advisor to the King of Saudi Arabia, he would say – “I told you so.”
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PM left saffron-faced after a series of Twitter embarrassments
New India 2002?
The Prime Minster today had to face great embarrasment after launching the ruling party’s New India campaign. In what was supposed to be a visionary target set for the year 2022 (when the country celebrates 75 years of covert subjugation of western powers), he tweeted the year 2002 instead.
The “accidental” typo led to a massive (yet unsurprising) shift in the rhetoric attached with the campaign as supporters of nationalist sentiments thought their dreams had finally come true.


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/* Copyright (c) 2006 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. */ /** * Defines the interface and base operation of items that that can be * dragged or can be drop targets. It was designed to be extended, overriding * the event handlers for startDrag, onDrag, onDragOver, onDragOut. * Up to three html elements can be associated with a DragDrop instance: *
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linked element: the element that is passed into the constructor. * This is the element which defines the boundaries for interaction with * other DragDrop objects.
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handle element(s): The drag operation only occurs if the element that * was clicked matches a handle element. By default this is the linked * element, but there are times that you will want only a portion of the * linked element to initiate the drag operation, and the setHandleElId() * method provides a way to define this.
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drag element: this represents an the element that would be moved along * with the cursor during a drag operation. By default, this is the linked * element itself as in YAHOO.util.DD. setDragElId() lets you define * a separate element that would be moved, as in YAHOO.util.DDProxy *
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 * This class should not be instantiated until the onload event to ensure that * the associated elements are available. * The following would define a DragDrop obj that would interact with any * other * DragDrop obj in the "group1" group: *
 * dd = new YAHOO.util.DragDrop("div1", "group1"); *
 * Since none of the event handlers have been implemented, nothing would * actually happen if you were to run the code above. Normally you would * override this class or one of the default implementations, but you can * also override the methods you want on an instance of the class... *
 * dd.onDragDrop = function(e, id) { * alert("dd was dropped on " + id); * } *
 * @constructor * @param {String} id of the element that is linked to this instance * @param {String} sGroup the group of related DragDrop objects */ YAHOO.util.DragDrop = function(id, sGroup) { if (id) { this.init(id, sGroup); } }; YAHOO.util.DragDrop.prototype = { /** * The id of the element associated with this object. This is what we * refer to as the "linked element" because the size and position of * this element is used to determine when the drag and drop objects have * interacted. * * @type String */ id: null, /** * The id of the element that will be dragged. By default this is same * as the linked element , but could be changed to another element. Ex: * YAHOO.util.DDProxy * * @type String * @private */ dragElId: null, /** * the id of the element that initiates the drag operation. By default * this is the linked element, but could be changed to be a child of this * element. This lets us do things like only starting the drag when the * header element within the linked html element is clicked. * * @type String * @private */ handleElId: null, /** * An array of HTML tags that will be ignored if clicked. * @type string[] */ invalidHandleTypes: null, /** * The linked element's absolute X position at the time the drag was * started * * @type int * @private */ startPageX: 0, /** * The linked element's absolute X position at the time the drag was * started * * @type int * @private */ startPageY: 0, /** * The group defines a logical collection of DragDrop objects that are * related. Instances only get events when interacting with other * DragDrop object in the same group. This lets us define multiple * groups using a single DragDrop subclass if we want. * @type string[] */ groups: null, /** * Individual drag/drop instances can be locked. This will prevent * onmousedown start drag. * * @type boolean * @private */ locked: false, /** * Lock this instance */ lock: function() { this.locked = true; }, /** * Unlock this instace */ unlock: function() { this.locked = false; }, /** * By default, all insances can be a drop target. This can be disabled by * setting isTarget to false. * * @type boolean */ isTarget: true, /** * The padding configured for this drag and drop object for calculating * the drop zone intersection with this object. * @type int[] */ padding: null, /** * @private */ _domRef: null, /** * Internal typeof flag * @private */ __ygDragDrop: true, /** * Set to true when horizontal contraints are applied * * @type boolean * @private */ constrainX: false, /** * Set to true when vertical contraints are applied * * @type boolean * @private */ constrainY: false, /** * The left constraint * * @type int * @private */ minX: 0, /** * The right constraint * * @type int * @private */ maxX: 0, /** * The up constraint * * @type int * @private */ minY: 0, /** * The down constraint * * @type int * @private */ maxY: 0, /** * Maintain offsets when we resetconstraints. Used to maintain the * slider thumb value, and this needs to be fixed. * @type boolean */ maintainOffset: false, /** * Array of pixel locations the element will snap to if we specified a * horizontal graduation/interval. This array is generated automatically * when you define a tick interval. * @type int[] */ xTicks: null, /** * Array of pixel locations the element will snap to if we specified a * vertical graduation/interval. This array is generated automatically * when you define a tick interval. * @type int[] */ yTicks: null, /** * By default the drag and drop instance will only respond to the primary * button click (left button for a right-handed mouse). Set to true to * allow drag and drop to start with any mouse click that is propogated * by the browser * @type boolean */ primaryButtonOnly: true, /** * Code that executes immediately before the startDrag event * @private */ b4StartDrag: function(x, y) { }, /** * Abstract method called after a drag/drop object is clicked * and the drag or mousedown time thresholds have beeen met. * * @param {int} X click location * @param {int} Y click location */ startDrag: function(x, y) { /* override this */ }, /** * Code that executes immediately before the onDrag event * @private */ b4Drag: function(e) { }, /** * Abstract method called during the onMouseMove event while dragging an * object. * * @param {Event} e */ onDrag: function(e) { /* override this */ }, /** * Code that executes immediately before the onDragEnter event * @private */ // b4DragEnter: function(e) { }, /** * Abstract method called when this element fist begins hovering over * another DragDrop obj * * @param {Event} e * @param {String || YAHOO.util.DragDrop[]} id In POINT mode, the element * id this is hovering over. In INTERSECT mode, an array of one or more * dragdrop items being hovered over. */ onDragEnter: function(e, id) { /* override this */ }, /** * Code that executes immediately before the onDragOver event * @private */ b4DragOver: function(e) { }, /** * Abstract method called when this element is hovering over another * DragDrop obj * * @param {Event} e * @param {String || YAHOO.util.DragDrop[]} id In POINT mode, the element * id this is hovering over. In INTERSECT mode, an array of dd items * being hovered over. */ onDragOver: function(e, id) { /* override this */ }, /** * Code that executes immediately before the onDragOut event * @private */ b4DragOut: function(e) { }, /** * Abstract method called when we are no longer hovering over an element * * @param {Event} e * @param {String || YAHOO.util.DragDrop[]} id In POINT mode, the element * id this was hovering over. In INTERSECT mode, an array of dd items * that the mouse is no longer over. */ onDragOut: function(e, id) { /* override this */ }, /** * Code that executes immediately before the onDragDrop event * @private */ b4DragDrop: function(e) { }, /** * Abstract method called when this item is dropped on another DragDrop * obj * * @param {Event} e * @param {String || YAHOO.util.DragDrop[]} id In POINT mode, the element * id this was dropped on. In INTERSECT mode, an array of dd items this * was dropped on. */ onDragDrop: function(e, id) { /* override this */ }, /** * Code that executes immediately before the endDrag event * @private */ b4EndDrag: function(e) { }, /** * Fired when we are done dragging the object * * @param {Event} e */ endDrag: function(e) { /* override this */ }, /** * Code executed immediately before the onMouseDown event * @param {Event} e * @private */ b4MouseDown: function(e) { }, /** * Event handler that fires when a drag/drop obj gets a mousedown * @param {Event} e */ onMouseDown: function(e) { /* override this */ }, /** * Event handler that fires when a drag/drop obj gets a mouseup * @param {Event} e */ onMouseUp: function(e) { /* override this */ }, /** * Returns a reference to the linked element * * @return {HTMLElement} the html element */ getEl: function() { if (!this._domRef) { this._domRef = this.DDM.getElement(this.id); } return this._domRef; }, /** * Returns a reference to the actual element to drag. By default this is * the same as the html element, but it can be assigned to another * element. An example of this can be found in YAHOO.util.DDProxy * * @return {HTMLElement} the html element */ getDragEl: function() { return this.DDM.getElement(this.dragElId); }, /** * Sets up the DragDrop object. Must be called in the constructor of any * YAHOO.util.DragDrop subclass * * @param id the id of the linked element * @param {String} sGroup the group of related items * element is supposed to be a target only, set to false. */ init: function(id, sGroup) { this.initTarget(id, sGroup); YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(id, "mousedown", this.handleMouseDown, this, true); }, /** * Initializes Targeting functionality only... the object does not * get a mousedown handler. * * @param id the id of the linked element * @param {String} sGroup the group of related items * element is supposed to be a target only, set to false. */ initTarget: function(id, sGroup) { // create a local reference to the drag and drop manager this.DDM = YAHOO.util.DDM; // create a logger instance this.logger = new ygLogger("DragDrop"); // set the default padding this.padding = [0, 0, 0, 0]; // initialize the groups array this.groups = {}; // set the id this.id = id; // the element is a drag handle by default this.setDragElId(id); // by default, clicked anchors will not start drag operations this.invalidHandleTypes = {a : "a"}; // We don't want to register this as the handle with the manager // so we just set the id rather than calling the setter this.handleElId = id; // cache the position of the element if we can if (document && document.body) { this.setInitPosition(); } // add to an interaction group this.addToGroup((sGroup) ? sGroup : "default"); }, /** * Configures the padding for the target zone in px. Effectively expands * (or reduces) the virtual object size for targeting calculations. * Supports css-style shorthand; if only one parameter is passed, all sides * will have that padding, and if only two are passed, the top and bottom * will have the first param, the left and right the second. * @param {int} iTop Top pad * @param {int} iRight Right pad * @param {int} iBot Bot pad * @param {int} iLeft Left pad */ setPadding: function(iTop, iRight, iBot, iLeft) { // this.padding = [iLeft, iRight, iTop, iBot]; if (!iRight && 0 !== iRight) { this.padding = [iTop, iTop, iTop, iTop]; } else if (!iBot && 0 !== iBot) { this.padding = [iTop, iRight, iTop, iRight]; } else { this.padding = [iTop, iRight, iBot, iLeft]; } }, /** * Stores the initial placement of the dd element */ setInitPosition: function(diffX, diffY) { var el = this.getEl(); if (!this.DDM.verifyEl(el)) { this.logger.debug(this.id + " element is broken"); return; } var dx = diffX || 0; var dy = diffY || 0; var p = YAHOO.util.Dom.getXY( el ); this.initPageX = p[0] - dx; this.initPageY = p[1] - dy; this.lastPageX = p[0]; this.lastPageY = p[1]; this.setStartPosition(p); }, /** * Sets the start position of the element. This is set when the obj * is initialized, the reset when a drag is started. * @param pos current position (from previous lookup) * @private */ setStartPosition: function(pos) { var p = pos || YAHOO.util.Dom.getXY( this.getEl() ); this.startPageX = p[0]; this.startPageY = p[1]; }, /** * Add this instance to a group of related drag/drop objects. All * instances belong to at least one group, and can belong to as many * groups as needed. * * @param sGroup {string} the name of the group */ addToGroup: function(sGroup) { this.groups[sGroup] = true; this.DDM.regDragDrop(this, sGroup); }, /** * Allows you to specify that an element other than the linked element * will be moved with the cursor during a drag * * @param id the id of the element that will be used to initiate the drag */ setDragElId: function(id) { this.dragElId = id; }, /** * Allows you to specify a child of the linked element that should be * used to initiate the drag operation. An example of this would be if * you have a content div with text and links. Clicking anywhere in the * content area would normally start the drag operation. Use this method * to specify that an element inside of the content div is the element * that starts the drag operation. * * @param id the id of the element that will be used to initiate the drag */ setHandleElId: function(id) { this.handleElId = id; this.DDM.regHandle(this.id, id); }, /** * Allows you to set an element outside of the linked element as a drag * handle */ setOuterHandleElId: function(id) { this.logger.debug("Adding outer handle event: " + id); YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(id, "mousedown", this.handleMouseDown, this, true); this.setHandleElId(id); }, /** * Remove all drag and drop hooks for this element */ unreg: function() { this.logger.debug("DragDrop obj cleanup " + this.id); YAHOO.util.Event.removeListener(this.id, "mousedown", this.handleMouseDown); this._domRef = null; this.DDM._remove(this); }, /** * Returns true if this instance is locked, or the drag drop mgr is locked * (meaning that all drag/drop is disabled on the page.) * * @return {boolean} true if this obj or all drag/drop is locked, else * false */ isLocked: function() { return (this.DDM.isLocked() || this.locked); }, /** * Fired when this object is clicked * * @param {Event} e * @param {YAHOO.util.DragDrop} oDD the clicked dd object (this dd obj) * @private */ handleMouseDown: function(e, oDD) { this.logger.debug("isLocked: " + this.isLocked()); var EU = YAHOO.util.Event; var button = e.which || e.button; this.logger.debug("button: " + button); if (this.primaryButtonOnly && button > 1) { this.logger.debug("Mousedown was not produced by the primary button"); return; } if (this.isLocked()) { this.logger.debug("Drag and drop is disabled, aborting"); return; } this.logger.debug("mousedown " + this.id); this.DDM.refreshCache(this.groups); // Only process the event if we really clicked within the linked // element. The reason we make this check is that in the case that // another element was moved between the clicked element and the // cursor in the time between the mousedown and mouseup events. When // this happens, the element gets the next mousedown event // regardless of where on the screen it happened. var pt = new YAHOO.util.Point(EU.getPageX(e), EU.getPageY(e)); if ( this.DDM.isOverTarget(pt, this) ) { this.logger.debug("click is legit"); // check to see if the handle was clicked var srcEl = EU.getTarget(e); if (this.isValidHandleChild(srcEl) && (this.id == this.handleElId || this.DDM.handleWasClicked(srcEl, this.id)) ) { // set the initial element position this.setStartPosition(); this.logger.debug("firing onMouseDown events"); this.b4MouseDown(e); this.onMouseDown(e); this.DDM.handleMouseDown(e, this); this.DDM.stopEvent(e); } } }, /** * Allows you to specify a tag name that should not start a drag operation * when clicked. This is designed to facilitate embedding links within a * drag handle that do something other than start the drag. * * @param {string} tagName the type of element to exclude */ addInvalidHandleType: function(tagName) { var type = tagName.toUpperCase(); this.invalidHandleTypes[type] = type; }, /** * Unsets an excluded tag name set by addInvalidHandleType * * @param {string} tagName the type of element to unexclude */ removeInvalidHandleType: function(tagName) { var type = tagName.toUpperCase(); this.invalidHandleTypes[type] = null; }, /** * Checks the tag exclusion list to see if this click should be ignored * * @param {ygNode} node * @return {boolean} true if this is a valid tag type, false if not */ isValidHandleChild: function(node) { var type = node.nodeName; if (type == "#text") { // this.logger.debug("text node, getting parent node type"); type = node.parentNode.nodeName; } return (!this.invalidHandleTypes[type]); }, /** * Create the array of horizontal tick marks if an interval was specified * in setXConstraint(). * * @private */ setXTicks: function(iStartX, iTickSize) { this.xTicks = []; this.xTickSize = iTickSize; var tickMap = {}; for (var i = this.initPageX; i >= this.minX; i = i - iTickSize) { if (!tickMap[i]) { this.xTicks[this.xTicks.length] = i; tickMap[i] = true; } } for (i = this.initPageX; i <= this.maxX; i = i + iTickSize) { if (!tickMap[i]) { this.xTicks[this.xTicks.length] = i; tickMap[i] = true; } } this.xTicks.sort(this.DDM.numericSort) ; this.logger.debug("xTicks: " + this.xTicks.join()); }, /** * Create the array of vertical tick marks if an interval was specified in * setYConstraint(). * * @private */ setYTicks: function(iStartY, iTickSize) { this.yTicks = []; this.yTickSize = iTickSize; var tickMap = {}; for (var i = this.initPageY; i >= this.minY; i = i - iTickSize) { if (!tickMap[i]) { this.yTicks[this.yTicks.length] = i; tickMap[i] = true; } } for (i = this.initPageY; i <= this.maxY; i = i + iTickSize) { if (!tickMap[i]) { this.yTicks[this.yTicks.length] = i; tickMap[i] = true; } } this.yTicks.sort(this.DDM.numericSort) ; this.logger.debug("yTicks: " + this.yTicks.join()); }, /** * By default, the element can be dragged any place on the screen. Use * this method to limit the horizontal travel of the element. Pass in * 0,0 for the parameters if you want to lock the drag to the y axis. * * @param {int} iLeft the number of pixels the element can move to the left * @param {int} iRight the number of pixels the element can move to the * right * @param {int} iTickSize optional parameter for specifying that the * element * should move iTickSize pixels at a time. */ setXConstraint: function(iLeft, iRight, iTickSize) { this.leftConstraint = iLeft; this.rightConstraint = iRight; this.minX = this.initPageX - iLeft; this.maxX = this.initPageX + iRight; if (iTickSize) { this.setXTicks(this.initPageX, iTickSize); } this.constrainX = true; this.logger.debug("initPageX:" + this.initPageX + " minX:" + this.minX + " maxX:" + this.maxX); }, /** * By default, the element can be dragged any place on the screen. Set * this to limit the vertical travel of the element. Pass in 0,0 for the * parameters if you want to lock the drag to the x axis. * * @param {int} iUp the number of pixels the element can move up * @param {int} iDown the number of pixels the element can move down * @param {int} iTickSize optional parameter for specifying that the * element should move iTickSize pixels at a time. */ setYConstraint: function(iUp, iDown, iTickSize) { this.topConstraint = iUp; this.bottomConstraint = iDown; this.minY = this.initPageY - iUp; this.maxY = this.initPageY + iDown; if (iTickSize) { this.setYTicks(this.initPageY, iTickSize); } this.constrainY = true; this.logger.debug("initPageY:" + this.initPageY + " minY:" + this.minY + " maxY:" + this.maxY); }, /** * resetConstraints must be called if you manually reposition a dd element. * @param {boolean} maintainOffset */ resetConstraints: function() { // this.logger.debug("init pagexy: " + this.initPageX + ", " + // this.initPageY); // this.logger.debug("last pagexy: " + this.lastPageX + ", " + // this.lastPageY); // figure out how much this thing has moved var dx = (this.maintainOffset) ? this.lastPageX - this.initPageX : 0; var dy = (this.maintainOffset) ? this.lastPageY - this.initPageY : 0; // this.logger.debug("diff: " + dx + ", " + dy); // reset the initial location this.setInitPosition(dx, dy); if (this.constrainX) { this.setXConstraint( this.leftConstraint, this.rightConstraint, this.xTickSize ); } if (this.constrainY) { this.setYConstraint( this.topConstraint, this.bottomConstraint, this.yTickSize ); } }, /** * Normally the drag element is moved pixel by pixel, but we can specify * that it move a number of pixels at a time. This method resolves the * location when we have it set up like this. * * @param {int} val where we want to place the object * @param {int[]} tickArray sorted array of valid points * @return {int} the closest tick * @private */ getTick: function(val, tickArray) { if (!tickArray) { // If tick interval is not defined, it is effectively 1 pixel, // so we return the value passed to us. return val; } else if (tickArray[0] >= val) { // The value is lower than the first tick, so we return the first // tick. return tickArray[0]; } else { for (var i = 0; i < tickArray.length; ++i) { var next = i + 1; if (tickArray[next] && tickArray[next] >= val) { var diff1 = val - tickArray[i]; var diff2 = tickArray[next] - val; return (diff2 > diff1) ? tickArray[i] : tickArray[next]; } } // The value is larger than the last tick, so we return the last // tick. return tickArray[tickArray.length - 1]; } }, /** * toString method * @return {string} string representation of the dd obj */ toString: function(val, tickArray) { return ("YAHOO.util.DragDrop {" + this.id + "}"); } };


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Jupyter notebook is a web application that allows you to create documents with live code and results. The underlying interpreters of the cells are called kernel. For example, you can use a python
kernel to interpret python expressions, or a ir
kernel to interpret R
commands. You can use sos within a python
kernel by loading the sos_magic
ipython extension, or use a sos
kernel to work in a complete SoS environment.
In addition to the ability to execute SoS workflows within Jupyter, the SoS kernel allows you to start subkernels (e.g. irkernel
for the R langauage) and switch between the subkernels in the same notebook. This allows for truly integrated data analysis using different langauages.
The SoS installation process will install a SoS kernel by default. To verify if you have the sos kernel installed, use command jupyter kernelspec list
from command line (here we use the !
magic to run commands from Jupyter notebook):
!jupyter kernelspec list
and check if you have sos
listed as one of the kernels. If not, try to re-install SoS using pip3 install sos --upgrade
or clone SoS locally and run python setup.py install
. If the kernel is installed, fire Jupyter using command
$ jupyter notebook
from the New
button to the top right corner, select SoS
, and create a SoS notebook.
You can also start a qtconsole with the SoS kernel using command
$ jupyter qtconsole --kernel sos
or even use the SoS kernel in Spyder. Most of the features described in this section also applies to qtconsole
and spyder
.
Note that SoS uses imagemagick and python package wand
to preview output files so it is recommended that you install these packages.
You can enter any SoS expression, statements, and workflows in a Jupyter notebook. More specifically, you can enter
res_path = '/path/to/resource'
ref_genome = "${res_path}/hg19"
run:
echo Reference genome is located at ${ref_genome}
[10]
print("I am in ${step_name}")
[20]
print("I am in ${step_name}")
[30]
print("I am in ${step_name}")
Technically speaking, SoS prefixes input with a default header if no header is present, and execute all input as SoS workflows. The major differences between running SoS scripts in batch mode and Jupyter notebook is the scope of variables. Whereas in Jupyter notebook all scripts are executed in the same namespace (SoS dictionary) with shared variables, SoS batch mode executes each step in separate processes with their own namespaces, with additional rules such as readonly global variables.
One of the most important features of the SoS kernel is its support for multiple Jupyter subkernel. Using a %use kernel
magic, you can start (and/or switches to) an alternative jupyter kernel and use a completely different script in the same notebook.
A kernel
can be any Jupyter supported kernels that have been installed locally. In particular, you can use ir
for R kernel, python3
for python3, iperl
for perl, bash
for bash. Please refer to IRKernel for instructions on how to install the ir
kernel for R
.
For example,
%use R
starts and switches to a ir
kernel so that you can enter any R commands as if you are working on a notebook with a ir
kernel
require(graphics)
pairs(mtcars, main = "mtcars data")
After you are done with the ir
kernel, you can switch back to the SoS kernel using magic
%use sos
SoS will interpolate cell content before it is passed to the subkernel. For example, if you save a dataframe to a file with name in filename
,
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
data = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(6,4),columns=list('ABCD'))
filename = 'mydata.csv'
data.to_csv(filename, index=False)
data
you can pass the filename to kernel ir
using ${filename}
as follows
%use R
d <- read.csv(${filename!r})
d
Although string interpolation allows you to compose scripts in other languages, it is not a particularly good way to exchange data between SoS and subkernels. Fortunately, the SoS kernel provides a mechanism to pass variables between SoS and some subkernels using SoS magics.
For example, magic %get
can get specified SoS variables from the SoS kernel to the subkernel ir
.
%get data
data
SoS tries its best to find the best-matching data types between SoS and the subkernel and convert the data in the subkernel's native datatypes (e.g. Python's DataFrame
to R's data.frame
), so the variables you get will always be in the subkernel's native data types, not a wrapper of a foreign object (for example objects provided by rpy2
).
class(data)
Unfortunately, although any subkernel can be started, SoS currently only support data exchange between SoS
, python3
, and ir
kernels. SoS provides an interface to add support for other languages. Please considering adding SoS support for your favoriate kernel with a pull request.
# clean up
%use sos
!rm mydata.csv


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In this part, we will build upon the Todo list from home.
Folder Structure¶
There is no required folder structure, but from experience we found the following structure to work and scale well for a uAdmin projects:
~/go/src/github.com/your_name/project/
models/ # Automatically Generated - DB models
a.go
b.go
api/ # Automatically Generated - Custom API
api.go
some_handler.go
views/ # Automatically Generated - Custom UI http handlers
view.go
some_view.go
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templates/ # Automatically Generated - html templates
main.go
The first time you run your project, these folders are automatically generated for you.
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The Nirvanix web services are split into namespaces. This is a proxy class representing one namespace. It allows calls to the namespace to be made by PHP object calls rather than by having to construct HTTP client requests.
$_defaults= 'array'
Defaults for POST parameters. When a request to the service is to be made, the POST parameters are merged into these. This is a convenience feature so parameters that are repeatedly required like sessionToken do not need to be supplied again and again by the user.
array
Detailsstring
$_host= 'http://services.nirvanix.com'
Host to use for calls to this Nirvanix namespace. It is possible that the user will wish to use different hosts for different namespaces.
http://services.nirvanix.com
Details\Zend_Http_Client
$_httpClient= ''
HTTP client instance that will be used to make calls to the Nirvanix web services.
__call(
string $methodName, array $args
)
:
\Zend_Service_Nirvanix_Response
When a method call is made against this proxy, convert it to an HTTP request to make against the Nirvanix REST service.
$imfs->DeleteFiles(array('filePath' => 'foo'));
Assuming this object was proxying the IMFS namespace, the method call above would call the DeleteFiles command. The POST parameters would be filePath, merged with the $this->_defaults (containing the sessionToken).
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| $methodName | string | Name of the command to call on this namespace. |
| $args | array | Only the first is used and it must be an array. It contains the POST params. |
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| \Zend_Service_Nirvanix_Response |
__construct(
array $options
=
array
)
:
void
Class constructor.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| $options | array | Options and dependency injection |
_makeUri(
string $methodName
)
:
string
Make a complete URI from an RPC method name. All Nirvanix REST service URIs use the same format.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| $methodName | string | RPC method name |
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| string |
_wrapResponse(
\Zend_Http_Response $httpResponse
)
:
\Zend_Service_Nirvanix_Response
All Nirvanix REST service calls return an XML payload. This method makes a Zend_Service_Nirvanix_Response from that XML payload.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| $httpResponse | \Zend_Http_Response | Raw response from Nirvanix |
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| \Zend_Service_Nirvanix_Response | Wrapped response |
getHttpClient(
)
:
\Zend_Http_Client
Return the HTTP client used for this namespace. This is useful for inspecting the last request or directly interacting with the HTTP client.
| Type | Description |
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| \Zend_Http_Client |


M_draw(3fm) - [M_draw::INTRO] The M_draw graphics library (LICENSE:PD)
Description
Library Function Descriptions
Example
Bugs
M_draw is a portable public-domain device-independent graphics library intended for being called from Fortran that is based on VOGLE (from the University of Melbourne) that is loosely based on the Silicon Graphics Iris GL library. It was also partly inspired by the DIGS library developed at the U.S. Naval Academy under the guidance of Prof David Rogers.
Many output devices are available:
o FrameMaker MIF 3.0 (Maker Interchange File) driver. o Adobe PDF driver. o HTML5 Canvas driver. o SVG driver. o A PCL5/HPGL2 driver that supports prefsize() calls. o Monochrome PBM (Poskanzer bitmap P1 and P4 formats) and X11 bitmap driver. o Color PBM (Poskanzer pixmap P3 and P6 formats). If you have the pbmplus package you can use it to make M_draw appear to write any format pbmplus writes (assuming your system supports the popen(3c) function). o A clear-text CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) driver. o A different (color) PostScript driver. o A driver for Microsoft VML (Vector Markup Language) M_draw is intended to produce simple graphics composed of line drawings and polygon fills in two and three dimensions. It handles circles, curves, arcs, patches, polygons, and software text in a device independent fashion. Simple hidden line removal is also available via polygon backfacing. Access to hardware text and double buffering of drawings depends on the driver.
M_draw is callable from C and Fortran, and Pascal; but M_draw is only supported in Fortran (the C components are being converted to Fortran).
The original VOGLE sources ownership statement
This software is public domain and may be used for any purpose commercial or otherwise. It is offered without any guarantee as to its suitability for any purpose or as to the sanity of its writers. The authors do ask that the source is passed on to anyone that requests a copy, and that people who get copies dont go round claiming they wrote it. Use at your own risk.
vinit(device) Initialise device vexit() Reset window/terminal (must be last routine called) voutput(path) Redirect output from *next* vinit to file vnewdev(device) Reinitialize to use new device without changing vgetdev(device) Get name of current device pushdev(device) push current device onto a stack popdev(device) pop device from stack created by pushdev. getdepth() Return number of bit planes (color planes)
Some devices are basically window oriented - like sunview and X11. You can give M_draw some information on the window that it will use with these routines. These can make your code very device independent. Both routines take arguments which are in device space. (0, 0) is the top left hand corner in device space. To have any effect these routines must be called before vinit. For the X11 device, an entry may be made in your .Xdefaults file or loaded in with the xrdb(1) command:
prefposition(x, y) Specify preferred position of window prefsize(width, height) Specify preferred width and height of window
xrdb <<\end_of_file ! X11 Windows fonts to use for "small" and "large" fonts M_draw*smallfont: fixed M_draw*largefont: 9x15 ! title on decoration bar for the window M_draw*title: My M_draw program ! window geometry and position, ! overridden by prefsize(3c) and prefposition(3c) M_draw.Geometry: =500x500-10+20 end_of_file(where you specify your geometry as you please).
clipping(onoff) Turn clipping on or off
clear() Clears screen to current color color(col) Set current color mapcolor(indx, red, green, blue) Set color map index
getkey() Return ASCII ordinal of next key typed checkkey() Returns zero if no key is pressed or ASCII ordinal getstring(bcol, string) Read in a string, echoing it in current font locator(xaddr, yaddr) Find out where cursor is slocator(xaddr, yaddr) Find out where cursor is in screen coordinates
There are two user routines that can be used to control flushing.
vsetflush(yesno) Set global flushing status vflush() Call device flush or syncronisation routine On some devices (particularly X11) considerable speedups in display can be achieved by not flushing each graphics primitive call to the actual display until necessary. M_draw automatically delays flushing in the following cases:
o Within a callobj() call. o Within curves and patches. o Within Hershey software text. o When double buffering (the flush is only done within swapbuffers).
Viewpoint routines alter the current transformation matrix.
viewport(left, right, bottom, top) Specify which part of screen to draw in pushviewport() Save current viewport popviewport() Retrieve last viewport getviewport(left, right, bottom,top) Returns limits of current viewport in screen coordinates expandviewport() use the entire device viewport unexpandviewport() undo expandviewport(3f)
Often the screen is not perfectly square and it would be nice to use the extra space without having to turn clipping off. The following routines are provided to get the values needed to adjust the calls to viewport, etc as needed.
getaspect() Returns the ratio height over width of the display device. getfactors(wfact, hfact) Returns width over min(width of device, height of device) and height over min(width of device, height of device). getdisplaysize(w, h) Returns width and height of device in device units
The attribute stack contains details such as current color, filling, hatching, centered, fixedwidth, text height, text width, and the current font. If you need to prevent object calls from changing these, use pushattributes before the call and popattributes after.
pushattributes() Save the current attributes on the attribute stack. popattributes() Restore attributes to what they were at last pushattributes().
ortho(left, right, bottom, top,near,far) Define x,y,z clipping planes. ortho2(left, right, bottom, top) Define x and y clipping planes. perspective(fov, aspect, near, far) Specify perspective viewing pyramid window(left, right, bot, top, near,far) Specify a perspective viewing pyramid
All the projection routines define a new transformation matrix, and consequently the world units. Parallel projections are defined by ortho or ortho2. Perspective projections can be defined by perspective and window.
subroutine page (left, right, bottom, top) create a window of the specified size and then set the viewport to the largest viewport with that aspect so that output acts much like a page of paper of the specified size without distortion.
pushmatrix() Save the current transformation matrix on the matrix stack. popmatrix() Reinstall the last matrix pushed
polarview(dist, azim, inc, twist) Specify the viewers position in polar coordinates up(x, y, z) Specify the world up. lookat(vx, vy, vz, px, py, pz,twist) Specify the viewers position
move(x, y, z) Move current graphics position to (x, y, z) rmove(deltax, deltay, deltaz) Relative move move2(x, y) Move graphics position to point (x, y) rmove2(deltax, deltay) Relative move in world units. smove2(x, y) Move current graphics position in screen coordinates (-1.0 to 1.0). rsmove2(deltax, deltay) Relative move in screen units (-1.0 to 1.0).
Linestyles are specified by giving a nominal length of a single dash and a character string consisting of 1s and 0s (zeros) that specify when to draw a dash and when not to draw a dash. Linestyles will follow curves and "go around" corners. If a linestyle is set or reset, the accumulated information as to where on a curve (or line) a dash is to be draw is also reset.
linewidth() set line width in rasters dashcode() set dash pattern length linestyle() set the line dash pattern For EXAMPLE, with a nominal view of -1 to 1, setting the dash length to 0.5, and the linestyle to 11010 would draw a line(or curve) with a 1.0 unit solid part, followed by a 0.5 unit blank part followed by a 0.5 unit solid part followed by a 0.5 unit blank part. The linestyle would then repeat itself.
The dash sizes are affected by the current viewport/transformation scaling factors, meaning that in perspective, the dashes look smaller the farther away they are.
draw(x, y, z) Draw from current graphics position to (x, y, z) rdraw(deltax, deltay, deltaz) Relative draw draw2(x, y) Draw from current graphics position to point (x, y) rdraw2(deltax,deltay) Relative draw sdraw2(x, y) Draw in screen coordinates (-1.0 to 1.0). rsdraw2(deltax, deltay) Relative draw in screen units (-1.0 to 1.0).
When creating arcs and sectors note that angles are measured in degrees; where zero(0) is the positive X axis in a right-handed Cartesian coordinate system and positive angles sweep counterclockwise. If filling sectors or circles (As described in the section on polygons) hatch pitch is measured in world coordinates and is initially set to 0.1. The initial hatch angle is zero(0).
circleprecision(nsegs) Set number of line segments in a circle. Default is 32. arc(x, y, radius, startang, endang) Draw an arc in world units. sector(x, y, radius, startang,endang) Draw a sector. Note: sectors are polygons. circle(x, y, radius) Draw a circle. Note: circles are polygons.
curvebasis(basis) Define a basis matrix for a curve. curveprecision(nsegs) Define number of line segments used to draw a curve. rcurve(geom) Draw a rational curve. curve(geom) Draw a curve. curven(n, geom) Draw n - 3 overlapping curve segments. Note: n must be at least 4.
rect(x1, y1, x2, y2) Draw a rectangle. polyfill(onoff) Set the polygon fill flag polyhatch(onoff) Set the polygon hatch flag hatchang(angle) Set the angle of the hatch lines. hatchpitch(pitch) Set the distance between hatch lines. poly2(n, points) Construct an (x, y) polygon from an array of points poly(n, points) Construct a polygon from an array of points makepoly() opens polygon constructed by a series of move-draws and closed by closepoly closepoly() Terminates a polygon opened by makepoly. backface(onoff) Turns on culling of backfacing polygons. backfacedir(clockwise) Sets backfacing direction to clockwise or anti-clockwise A polygon is composed of a number of coplanar line segments connected end to end to form a closed shape. In M_draw curves are estimated by a series of line segments, and thus may be included easily into polygons. Regular A polygon with all sides and interior angles the same. Regular polygons are always convex. See Regular Polygons Irregular Each side may a different length, each angle may be a different measure. The opposite of a regular polygon. See Irregular Polygons Convex All interior angles less than 180 ,and all vertices point outwards away from the interior. The opposite of concave. Regular polygons are always convex. See Convex Polygons Concave One or more interior angles greater than 180 . Some vertices push inwards towards the interior of the polygon. The opposite of convex. Self-intersecting or Crossed A polygon where one or more sides crosses back over another side, creating multiple smaller polygons. Most of the properties and theorems concerning polygons do not apply to this shape. It is best considered as several separate polygons. A polygon that in not self-intersecting in this way is called a simple polygon.
M_draw supports hardware and software fonts. The software fonts are based on the character set digitized by Dr Allen V. Hershey while working at the U. S. National Bureau of Standards. Exactly what hardware fonts are supported depends on the device, but it is guaranteed that the names "large" and "small" will result in something readable. For X11 displays the default large and small fonts used by the program can be overridden by placing the following defaults in the ~/.Xdefaults file:
font(fontname) set the current font numchars() return number of characters in the current SOFTWARE font. textsize(width, height) set maximum size of a character in the current SOFTWARE font. textang(ang) set the SOFTWARE text angle. fixedwidth(onoff) turns fixedwidth mode on or off for SOFTWARE fonts. getcharsize(c, width, height) get the width and height of a character. getfontdec() return size of maximum font descender getfontsize(width, height) get maximum width and height of a character in a font. drawchar(c) draw the character c and update current position. drawstr(str) draw the text in string at the current position. strlength(str) return the length of the string s boxtext(x, y, l, h, s) stretch and draw the SOFTWARE string s so that it fits in the imaginary box boxfit(x, y, l, h, s) resize the SOFTWARE text size so it fits in a box textjustify(val) general text justification leftjustify() left justify text rightjustify() right justify text topjustify() top justify text bottomjustify() bottom justify text centertext(onoff) turns centertext mode on or off for SOFTWARE fonts. xcentertext() center text in the X direction ycentertext() center text in the Y direction textslant() defines the obliqueness of the fonts. textweight() defines the weight of the fonts.
draw.smallfont: X11-font-name draw.largefont: X11-font-nameIt is noted here that hardware text is always assumed to be drawn parallel to the (x, y) plane, using whatever the current z coordinate is. The following software fonts are supported:
astrology cursive cyrillic futura.l futura.m gothic.eng gothic.ger gothic.ita greek markers math.low math.upp meteorology music script symbolic times.g times.i times.ib times.r times.rb japaneseA markers font "markers" is also provided for doing markers - you need to have centertext mode on for this to give sensible results when placing the markers.
If the environment variable "M_DRAW_FONTPATH" is set M_draw looks for the software fonts in the directory given by this value.
the default font is futura.l
All transformations are cumulative, so if you rotate something and then do a translate you are translating relative to the rotated axes. If you need to preserve the current transformation matrix use pushmatrix(), do the drawing, and then call popmatrix() to get back where you were before.
translate(x, y, z) Set up a translation. scale(x, y, z) Set up scaling factors in x, y, and z axis. rotate(angle, axis) Set up a rotation in axis axis where axis is one of x,y, or z. When doing transformations, ensure your objects remain in the viewing volume or they will be clipped. See routines such as ortho(3) for more information.
patchbasis(tbasis, ubasis) Define the t and u basis matrices of a patch. patchprecision(tseg, useg) Set minimum number of line segments making up curves in a patch. patchcurves(nt, nu) Set the number of curves making up a patch. rpatch(gx, gy, gz, gw) Draws a rational patch in the current basis, according to the geometry matrices gx, gy, gz, and gw. patch(gx, gy, gz) Draws a patch in the current basis, according to the geometry matrices gx, gy, and gz.
points are drawn with the current color and linewidth. Points are currently device-specific and may appear as circles, squares, or not at all; as they are generated by a zero-length vector using the hardware line style.
point(x, y, z) Draw a point at x, y, z point2(x, y) Draw a point at x, y.
Objects are graphical entities created by the drawing routines called between makeobj and closeobj. Objects may be called from within other objects. When an object is created most of the calculations required by the drawing routines called within it are done up to where the calculations involve the current transformation matrix. So if you need to draw the same thing several times on the screen but in different places it is faster to use objects than to call the appropriate drawing routines each time. Objects also have the advantage of being savable to a file, from where they can be reloaded for later reuse. Routines which draw or move in screen coordinates, or change device, cannot be included in objects.
makeobj(n) Commence the object number n. closeobj() Close the current object. genobj() Returns a unique object identifier. getopenobj() Return the number of the current object. callobj(n) Draw object number n. isobj(n) Returns non-zero if there is an object of number n. delobj(n) Delete the object number n. loadobj(n, filename) Load the object in the file filename as object number n. saveobj(n, filename) Save object number n into file filename. Does NOT save objects called inside object n. invokeobj(xt,yt,zt,xs,ys,zs,xr,yr,zr,iobject) push environment and do a transformation and then pop environment
Where possible M_draw allows for front and back buffers to enable things like animation and smooth updating of the screen. The routine backbuffer is used to initialise double buffering.
backbuffer() Draw in the backbuffer. Returns -1 if the device is not up to it. frontbuffer() Draw in the front buffer. This will always work. swapbuffers() Swap the front and back buffers.
getgp(x, y, z) Gets the current graphics position getgpt(x, y, z, w) Gets the current transformed graphics position in world coords. getgp2(x, y) Gets the current graphics position sgetgp2(x, y) Gets the current screen graphics position in screen coords (-1 to 1)
subroutine pop() pop subroutine push() push
Sample program:
program demo_M_draw use M_draw use M_draw, only : D_BLACK, D_WHITE use M_draw, only : D_RED, D_GREEN, D_BLUE use M_draw, only : D_YELLOW, D_MAGENTA, D_CYAN implicit none integer :: ipaws real :: x1, y1 integer :: icolor integer :: i,j! initialize image call prefsize(400,400) ! set size before starting call vinit( ) ! start graphics using device $M_DRAW_DEVICE call textsize(10.0,10.0) call mapcolor( 0, 255,255,255 ) !white call mapcolor( 1, 255, 0, 0 ) !red call mapcolor( 2, 0,255, 0 ) !green call mapcolor( 3, 255,255, 0 ) !yellow call mapcolor( 4, 0, 0,255 ) !blue call mapcolor( 5, 255, 0,255 ) !magenta call mapcolor( 6, 0,255,255 ) !cyan call mapcolor( 7, 0, 0, 0 ) !black call mapcolor( 8, 0,155, 0 ) call mapcolor( 9, 155,155,155 ) call mapcolor(10, 155,255,255 ) call mapcolor(11, 155,155, 0 ) call mapcolor(12, 0, 0,155 ) call mapcolor(13, 155, 0,155 ) call mapcolor(14, 0,155,155 ) call mapcolor(15, 100,100,100 ) call mapcolor(16, 155,100,100 ) call color(D_BLACK) call clear() ! clear to color 0 call color(D_WHITE)
! map area of virtual world to specified device area ! notice Y-axis for viewport is zero at TOP ! define the virtual world area we want to work in call page(0.0, 400.0, 0.0, 400.0) ! the drawing routines use these world units
! put some colored boxes into pixmap by address ! so show how the pixel map can be edited easily with ! other routines that can manipulate a pixel array. !
Double buffering isnt supported on all devices.
We dont recommend the use of the smove/sdraw routines.
The yobbarays may be turned on or they may be turned off.
When creating an object, current position and text size are not actually changed so almost any query routine to get position or font size or whatever will not work properly.
If call vexit(3f) and then call vinit(3f) everything should probably be reset to initial values at program startup, such as linewidth, current font, and color. It is currently left up to the output device initialization routine. It should not be. To minimize the issue, call all the push* routines after a vinit(3f) and call all the pop* routines before vexit(3f).
Exactly what attributes should and should not be reset with a vnewdev(3f) is questionable.
| Nemo Release 3.1 | M_draw (3) | July 22, 2023 |


Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
10 to 30 mins
Serves
Makes 20 gnocchi
Dietary
First place the unpeeled potatoes in a pan of slightly salted water, bring to the boil and cook until the potatoes are tender. Keep the potatoes whole - if they are cut, they absorb water. If you prefer, you can bake the potatoes in the oven.
Meanwhile, make the filling. Heat the olive oil in a pan and sweat the onion and garlic. Then add the mushrooms and stir-fry for a minute. Season with salt and pepper, add the herbs and cook for a few minutes until the mushrooms are soft. Set aside and leave to cool.
To make the gnocchi, once the potatoes are cooked, drain and leave to cool. When cool, peel and discard the skin and mash the potatoes.
Place the mashed potato in a large bowl together with the flour and cornflour. Add the eggs and salt and mix well until you get a smooth, but slightly sticky dough.
Place on a floured worktop and with a rolling pin roll out to a thin sheet. With a 6cm/2½in pastry cutter, cut out approximately 20 rounds. Place 1 tsp of the filling in the centre of half the round shapes. Place the empty ones over the top and with your fingers press down the edges.
Bring a large saucepan of slightly salted water to the boil, then drop in the gnocchi. When they come up to the surface, cook for a further 2 minutes (remember these are filled gnocchi and much thicker than normal gnocchi, so they need a little longer to cook through).
Meanwhile, in a pan melt the butter, add the sage and gnocchi, then mix in the parmesan cheese. Mix well together. Drizzle some balsamic vinegar over the top and serve.


Local mom donates part of liver to Connecticut baby in need
by Litsa PappasMEDFIELD, Mass.  She learned about the baby in need through her mothers' Facebook group.
"I promise you don't need to be a superhero to do this," she said.
Andrea Alberto claims she's just a normal mom. But she's much more than that after saving a baby's life.
"It's really been amazing for me to get to watch him do so well," she said.
Alberto learned baby Cal needed a new liver after his mom posted about his condition in a mother's Facebook group. Even though she didn't know this family from Connecticut, Alberto jumped to help.
About seven weeks ago she donated 30% of her liver to baby Cal, and they both spent two weeks in the hospital recovering.
"At this point, 7 weeks out, [it's] almost entirely regrown to its original size and my liver will continue to grow in Cal to be the size he needs it to be," she said.
Alberto was only the 97th person in the U.S. to donate a liver to a stranger. She says her friends, who were also donors, inspired her to do it. Plus, as a single mom of two boys with a full-time job, she says it truly takes a village for all mothers to help each other out.
"I have a friend right now who comes every week and takes my trash and I have friends who bring me dinner and I have so many people in my life who have supported me in so many different ways," she said. "And I feel like this just falls under the umbrella of the way people help each other."
For Alberto, donating her liver wasn't a big deal. But she knows just how big of a deal it was for baby Cal and his family.
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"He's doing great," she said. "He had his birthday this week, he just turned one, and he ate birthday cake!"
She says many people don't realize livers regenerate, and the risks for her were very low. Now she hopes to inspire other donors to save more lives.
"As long as you're willing to sacrifice a few weeks of your life and get a really cool scar then you can change someone's whole life, which is really incredible," she said.
Alberto says most people need to wait for a deceased donor to get the liver they need. But the surgery can be so much more successful if there's a living donor willing to help.


VERY BAD THINGS (1998) A Film Review by Ted Prigge Copyright 1998 Ted Prigge
Writer/Director: Peter Berg Starring: Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, Leland Orser, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Carla Scott, Russel B. McKenzie, Lawrence Pressman
Well, "Very Bad Things" is not exactly bad, but it's not exactly great either. Peter Berg's hopeful satirization of the hidden angst and horror that lies within the souls of yuppie suburbanites is hardly the success in either the insightful field or the realms of actual funny black comedy, and the result is a pitch black black comedy that is actually blacker and more desolate than, say, "Dr. Strangelove," but about a millionth as satisfying. Walking out of this film one warm Wednesday night, I wasn't laughing or particularly freaked out by what had happened, but merely trying to figure out just why this film hadn't taken off, when it did have some very big positive pointers going for it, not the least being its excellent cast, and definitely not the least being that it does, in fact, have a pretty killer story.
All I can think of is that this film is perhaps too intense, maybe too black. I know that the idealism behind the sub-genre of "Black Comedy" is that you can push the envelope as far as you want to go, that actually pushing it beyond the realms that anyone has ever gone is what makes it so "black." "Strangelove," in fact, pushes it farther than anyone has pushed it hence (at least up until now), making comedy out of nuclear anihilation, finding big chuckles in the mere sight of wild-ass hick Slim Pickens riding a H-Bomb, waving his hat in the hair, as he plumets to not only his death, but many others'. There are similar moments in "Very Bad Things," including several gruesome deaths, freakish occurances, and some general orgiac pandemonium - stuff that either equals or rivals the content of "Strangelove," yet there's a world of difference between the two - in fact, so much that I'm of all people wondering why I'm comparing the two, when in fifty years, "Strangelove" will most likely still be one of the most-talked about motion pictures and "Very Bad Things" will be viewed as merely a blemish on the oeuvre of all involved...even Jeanne Tripplehorn.
The thing that differentiates this from all other black comedies is, then, tone, and the matter in which it is applied.  And what happens is, yes, this film definitely has spice, above everything else, but that's probably it's undoing. It's so audaciously in favor of being completely over-the-top that for most of the film, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be laughing or actually being frightened by its ghastly events. This apparently was the purpose, as Berg has been quoted as telling its potential audiences to just keep on reminding themselves that what they're watching is a comedy, even though the film is so cartoonish in its presentation that even if it is intense, it's absolutely impossible to take this as anything short of a really black comedy, funny or not.
And for at least the first half hour, it isn't half bad (read: I laughed, but not much or hard). Berg's dissection of young upwardly mobile members, living in suburbia, and just starting out their lives is mildly amusing if not a little tired. We're introduced to the five pals (played by Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, and Leland Orser) and their respective problems (Favreau is getting married to Cameron Diaz; Stern and Piven are perpetually feuding siblings), and after all this, they all head out for the lavish Bachelor Party for Favreau, all the way out in Vegas, where they engage in drugs, general rucous, and eventually, a stripper who bares her body, then ends up in the bathroom, where she fucks the now-emotionally-released Piven, who slips on the wet floor, landing the back of the stripper's head on a coat hanger.
Things get pretty intense from here, including a visit from a security guard (some have actually made the mistake that this film is racist from the fact that the stripper is asian, the security guard is black, and Stern is openly Jewish), and like a first-time director trying to be completely hip, Berg mistakens the stupidity of these five characters as a form of really inspired comic flight, unfortunately the only real source of jokes in this film. Favreau does his character from "Swingers," Stern does the trademark Stern character he's done twice too many times before, Piven does the Piven-schtick, Orser just kinda sits there with nothing to do, and Slater, for the first time since, oh I dunno, "Heathers," actually steals the show and becomes pretty engrossingly witty. It's all generally interesting, and I was actually pretty much into it so much that I was actually enjoying myself and wondering what would in fact happen to hold this flawed but engrossing mixture of bad jokes and extremely intense pseudo-drama for another hour or so.
Sadly enough, once the guys are back home and when they're consciences are getting to them is about the time the film just slowly collapses under itself. The jokes become less and less funny, the situations become more intense, and by the end, it has come to an almost-completely disappointing denouement, where two characters don't get at all what they deserved, and one does. When the movie was over, I got up, left, and walked slowly to my car in a bemused state of depression, not depressed over what had happened in the film, but depressed because I wasn't at all satisfied with what had happened. Theoretically, this film should work. It shows that humans are, deep down, horrible people, and any pain they receive is justified. Great point. It was also made in the black comedy "Your Friends and Neighbors," a brilliantly funny movie that also doesn't respect its characters and still manages to leave the audience satisfied. Maybe that was because writer/director Neil LaBute not only had a more observant tone, but also told funnier jokes. The characters were fully realized, and they seemed like, well, real people who really did deserve their sad fates by the finale.
"Very Bad Things" rests on characateurs, and that's not really bad, but it's not exactly great either. It doesn't help that Berg has nothing original or even very interesting to say about them, and the only character who's even close to possessing anything resembling dimensions is Cameron Diaz's, a Martha Stewart with a vengeance who isn't so much interested in marrying as she is BEING married, and will go as far as to bash a man's head in and order the deaths of man and canine to insure her possible happiness. Combined with Slater's joyously devious lawyer, who seems that he may miss covering up for what happened in Vegas, and you have the only real signs of wit and comedy in the entire film. Even Favreau, a really hilarious actor, seems like he was imported from another film and is just standing around, awkwardly awaiting the finale.
But perhaps the worst thing about "Very Bad Things" is that after all the hype, all the trailers that made it look like the hippest black comedy to come our way since the dawn of Quentin Tarantino, it is ultimately forgettable, and seems to be a direct miss in what Berg was hoping would happen. Afterwards, I couldn't get some of the carnage out of my mind (particularly one pretty vile death about halfway through), but a week later, I had all but forgotten what it was I didn't really like about it. Okay, sure, it's a tad engrossing, but when the film no longer held my utmost attention following a promising beginning, there was nothing left for me to really care about. When the bomb finally did go off in "Strangelove," I saw it as hilariously disturbing, since those who caused it to happen were not only a bunch of imbeciles, but also the ones in charge of our lives. When the end finally came for "Very Bad Things," all I could think of was "ugh."
MY RATING (out of 4): **
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mdevd
Software
skarnet.org
The mdevd-coldplug program
mdevd-coldplug performs a coldplug: it scans
/sys for all registered devices a uevent manager would
want to perform actions on, and tells the kernel to generate uevents
for all these devices.
Interface
mdevd-coldplug [ -v verbosity ] [ -s slashsys ] [ -O nlgroup ] [ -b kbufsize ]
- mdevd-coldplug scans /sys for devices.
- For every suitable device it finds, it tells the kernel
to generate an event. If a device manager such as
as mdevd is listening to the netlink
at this point, it will pick up the series of events.
- mdevd-coldplug exits when it has finished scanning.
Options
- -v verbosity : be more or less verbose.
Default verbosity is 1. 0 will only print fatal error messages, 3 or more
is seriously verbose debugging.
- -s slashsys : assume the sysfs
pseudo-filesystem is mounted on slashsys. Default is /sys.
- -O nlgroup : synchronous coldplug.
mdevd-coldplug will not exit until the last uevent it triggers
has been handled by mdevd. nlgroup
needs to be a netlink group that mdevd is
rebroadcasting handled events to. Note that this option can only work
if mdevd is running with a similar -O
option with a compatible value; else, mdevd-coldplug will wait
forever.
- -b kbufsz : try and reserve a kernel buffer of
kbufsz bytes for the netlink queue. The default is 500 kB;
if you're getting "No buffer space available" errors, try increasing this number.
This option is only meaningful when paired with the -O option.
Exit codes
- 0: success
- 111: system call failed
Notes
- mdevd-coldplug is a short-lived program, just like
mdev -s or udevadm trigger.


This scenario demonstrates a simple, end-to-end video call client that demonstrates the low latency mode of WinRT's capture engine and the video tag. The sample uses a custom network source and a custom sink extensions to send and recieve captured audio and video data between 2 computers.


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June 26
The beginning of strife is as when water first trickles [from a crack in a dam]; therefore
stop contention before it becomes worse and quarreling breaks out.
Proverbs 17:14
Throughout the Scriptures, God warns us about the danger of strife. Yet, it's still one of the most common problems among believers. We let it get into our homes, our work places, our churches...everywhere!
Of course, we don't purposely let it in. We don't wake up in the morning and say, "I think I'm going to stir up some major strife today." We just inadvertently let it slip up on us one minor irritation at a time.
So, I urge you today to take a big stand against those little opportunities for strife. If you have a tendency to let things irritate you, decide to overcome that tendency. Arm yourself against them with the knowledge that this world isn't perfect, that there are people in it that aren't going to be nice to you. There are people who are going to stir you up and annoy you on purpose or by accident.
Make up your mind that, by the power of God, you're not going to let them get your peace. That peace is so important to your well-being. It will keep your body healthy. It will keep your relationships healthy. It will put you in a place where God can guide your steps and save you from some very grave mistakes.
If you've spent a lifetime getting your feathers ruffled over every little thing, it may take a while for you to break that habit. You may have to work at it a moment at a time. But you can do it.
I know. I had to do that where worrying is concerned. I'd worried for so many years and had come from such a family of worriers that I did it almost without thinking. When I learned worrying went contrary to the Word of God, I had to give it up one minute at a time. With the help of the Holy Spirit, every time a worried thought would come to me, I would overcome it with the Word of God. And I did that until I broke that worrying habit for good.
You can do the same thing with strife. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you start to notice and overcome it one moment at a time. Then, every time you start to get upset about something, rebuke that strife in the Name of Jesus and resist it. Say right out loud, "I am walking in the peace of God today."
You'll be surprised how much more wonderful living can be.
Scripture Reading: Matthew 5:21-26,43-48